Can You Hear Me? is Malani’s latest multiple projection installation, a type of art she calls the
‘animation chamber’. The title “Can you hear me?” is taken from a 2018 animation, which was part of
her Notebooks animations, about a minor girl who was raped but nobody heard her cry. This piteous
cry, this voice of the dispossessed which is not being heard or is deliberately ignored, is presented in
different registers of the ironical, and the absurd, with bright colors and quirky sounds tracks.


These Notebooks animations were started by Malani in 2017 and are made on an Apple iPad, which
functions as her artist’s sketchbook. Here she develops her ideas and speaks about the absurdities of
life which she encounters, making it into ‘memory emotions’. Each of these animations has an intriguing
title, such as Fail Better, Ubu Roi, Red Man, Double Speak, She is gone my Mighty Bird, which the
artist categorizes as: socio - political, abstract, masculine/feminine ideology, satirical or more personal.
These iPad animations as a set of works have a sense of the object.

For this she developed a language that is funny, sad, modest, energetic, hysterical and satirical. But
within it also appears the comic and the absurd. The sound that Malani designs is frequently as
contrapuntal to the animations. The length is usually less than a minute as this is the limit of Instagram –
the platform where she presents these original art works for free, to a wide and diverse audience,
circumventing the commercialized art market.


This installation collection is wider than the earlier presentations on Instagram including a selection of
longer animations www.instagram.com/nalinimalani